The $200 Million Coin Collection | Forbes

The Pogue Collection will likely be the most expensive coin collection ever sold at auction. The face value of the 681 coins? $969.14.


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[usapennyhunter]

The best I can do is 40 bucks.
I'm taking a real risk here.

[SpunkyGrubber]

“Do you mind if I have one of my buddies come in and take a look at it?”

[luisvejar]

My coin collection is a Quarter from Aruba and a chuck e cheese token

[sinceremilkoftheword]

Truly a once in a lifetime auction for sure! Whoever bought that collection is very lucky. The values will continue to multiply as the decades go on.

[MichaelChengSanJose]

Truly, a museum quality collection that should be preserved and kept intact for everyone to enjoy. The quality of those first American coins is just insane. It’s literally like somebody took them straight from the mint and kept them safe for 230 years. The only examples I’ve seen are nearly black and flat from use.

[ss]

The owner is so passionate and proud of his collection, wealthy or not that's what collectors all have in common. Off subject, imagine finding this collection in a safe in a storage auction.

[ZombieProdigyUS]

If I had $200million to spend on coins, I would buy up all the gold dollars on the market & just put them in giant pirate chests. 😅

[mulemule]

*UPDATE: sold in 7 auctions across 5+ years, the collection fetched ~ $132 MM. A highlight being an 1822 Capped Head Left Half Eagle for $8.4 MM.*

[Numismaticswithkennyt]

This collection is probably the most amazing collection.

[wisconsincrhunter]

By far the most stunning collection in the world! I wish I had only one of those early coins

[jeffreymorris]

These should be bought for the USA, then placed on permanent exhibition at an appropriate place in Washington DC.

[margomargo]

Wow! Amazing how learning facts about these coins brings history to life.  Thank you, Forbes, for this informative and enlightening report.

[jjh]

As a kid, I had a paper route and each week would go through the change that people often paid with looking for rare coins. I got almost a whole set of wheat cent pennies collected that way and it was a lot of fun. As you say, in this era I don't see the appeal to coin collecting for the youth because of all the technology distractions.

[TheAndOnlyTeabager]

Very cool, hopefully you guys will make an update video when these pieces go to auction. Id be curious to see what they go for.

[Hjvujjnnnjhhy]

This is one of the finest collections!

Rick: would you take 1 grand?

[alwaysanonymous]

Pawn stars will buy this for $100 and with a risk - frame cost and sitting on the shelf cost

[AlIegory]

D. Brent Pogue Collection netted total sales of $106, 720, 432.25 USD

[tbstacker]

Im falling in love with coins, my collection just doesn't grow fast enough, I just do t make the money to keep up. It so unfortunate because I'm always coming across things I want but can't get. But these collections are incredible

[lukebarker]

Forbes, please keep us posted on how the auction goes!

[williamrizzo]

My grandmother started me on my coin collection when I was a kid. I remember the teacher ask the class to bring in coins for show and tell, I had a 1797 coin that was brown in color I don't remember what denomination it was. He said he wanted to keep it and look into what it was, I never got it back he later told me it was fake. I lived in Newtown Connecticut at the time. I wish I had that coin today I could probably retire.